“U.S. officials said the administration decided to impose sanctions against Israeli settlers because it concluded that the current Israeli government is not seriously attempting to stop and prevent the attacks against Palestinians” …
… yet “US-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) were used by the Israeli military in two deadly, unlawful air strikes on homes full of civilians in the occupied Gaza Strip” …
- Israel/OPT: US-made Munitions Killed 43 Civilians in Two Documented Israeli Air Strikes in Gaza – New Investigation (Amnesty International)
… where the death toll from Israel’s scorched earth policy mounts:
- More than 15,900 Palestinians Killed in Gaza Since Oct. 7 -Palestinian Health Minister (Reuters)
- Israel’s Use of Disproportionate Force Is a Long-established Tactic – with a Clear Aim (The Guardian)
The House passed a bill that “condemned the slogan ‘From the River to the Sea’, which rights advocates understand to be an aspirational call for equality in historic Palestine” …
… and moves to intimidate colleges into even harsher crackdowns on pro-Palestinian demonstrators …
- Presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT Face Grilling on Capitol Hill (Inside Higher Education)
… and a “First Amendment Scholar is very worried about the future of speech on college campuses”:
“Watch the moment an Israeli air strike hit the gates of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, where Palestinians say a new massacre has taken place after days of attacks in the area”:
“Israeli forces had raided Defense for Children International- Palestine’s offices and designated it a terrorist organisation” after a US State Department complaint “about the rape of a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in Al-Mascobiyya detention centre”:
- Israel-Palestine War: Israel Shut Down NGO for Reporting Rape of Teenager, Ex-US Official Says (Middle East Eye)
“This is what Christmas looks like in Palestine”:
- Nativity Scene Places Baby Jesus in Rubble (Aljazeera)
“63 journalists and media workers were confirmed dead” …
- Journalist Casualties in the Israel-Gaza War (Committee to Protect Journalists)
… but Israel isn’t the only government targeting journalists:
A young woman says, “I don’t think the state of Israel should ever have been established. It’s based on this idea of Jewish supremacy” but her parents have moved there:
Reuters reported that the auditors investigating whether Volkswagen used “Uyghur Muslims as forced or interned labour at their factory in Xinjiang … had to be accompanied by two local Chinese lawyers,” tainting the investigation:
The keffiyeh “came to symbolise Palestinian resistance during the 1936 Arab Revolt against British rule and later became the signature headgear of Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat”:
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